A bid to avoid to avoid union dues in Alaska was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away Alaska’s bid to revive a Republican-backed policy to make it easier for state workers to opt out of paying union dues in the latest case aimed at limiting the influence of unions representing public-sector employees.
The justices declined to hear the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that found that a union’s collecting of dues from public employees who it represents without receiving their explicit written consent did not violate their free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
Republican Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy in 2019 issued an administrative order, opens new tab barring unions representing government employees from collecting dues from workers unless they filled out forms explicitly authorizing them. But lower courts later invalidated that policy in a lawsuit brought by Alaska against the state’s largest public-sector union.
The Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, has leaned toward curbing the power of labor unions in rulings in recent years.”
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